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"selah" originate from?
Mi remember when mi was a likkle gurl in Ja, and would read the Bible and my parents would listen..
At the end of some verse[s], would be the word "Selah".
Mi parents would tell mi nat tuh read that word for it is a bad word..*chukkle* Mi used to ask them, as small as I ws, why????
I note that over the years the word has disappeared from modern translation and versions.
From Wiki: heresoh
"Selah" is used in Iyaric Rastafarian vocabulary. It can be heard at the end of spoken-word segments of some reggae songs. Its usage here, again, is to accentuate the magnitude and importance of what has been said, and often is a sort of substitute for Amen. The Iyaric term has also been said by folk etymology to signify "Seal up" as in, "may JAH seal up any inadvertent mistakes in what was said".[4]
Furman Bisher, the well-known former sports editor and current columnist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has for decades signed off his columns with "Selah."
Selah has also been used as an alternative to the phrase "get awesome" in Lake Merritt and the Southeast Hills (more specifically Skyline-Hillcrest Estates) sections of Oakland, CA.[citation needed]
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Selah !
Mi remember when mi was a likkle gurl in Ja, and would read the Bible and my parents would listen..
At the end of some verse[s], would be the word "Selah".
Mi parents would tell mi nat tuh read that word for it is a bad word..*chukkle* Mi used to ask them, as small as I ws, why????
I note that over the years the word has disappeared from modern translation and versions.
From Wiki: heresoh
"Selah" is used in Iyaric Rastafarian vocabulary. It can be heard at the end of spoken-word segments of some reggae songs. Its usage here, again, is to accentuate the magnitude and importance of what has been said, and often is a sort of substitute for Amen. The Iyaric term has also been said by folk etymology to signify "Seal up" as in, "may JAH seal up any inadvertent mistakes in what was said".[4]
Furman Bisher, the well-known former sports editor and current columnist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has for decades signed off his columns with "Selah."
Selah has also been used as an alternative to the phrase "get awesome" in Lake Merritt and the Southeast Hills (more specifically Skyline-Hillcrest Estates) sections of Oakland, CA.[citation needed]
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Selah !
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